Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-09-17
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Items of All sorts-Notes Of General I'M
terest-Stray Mcmoranda.
a debt for drinks" cannot be collected I'M
der tile laws of New Jersey.
Germany has discovered That in high sea-
her torpedo boats are useless
(: Atthe fashionable resorts it becomes mys.
tory how some families make both social endh
meet.
A San francisco Jewish land syndicate,
representing 1000, 200, it Is reported, will op-
crate OF San Jose shortly.
Chicago capitalists have bought the Yer
million iron range In Minnesota, Which pro-
duced 3d. 900 tons Of Gre last year.
There will be %, 900 sacks Of black mustard,
worth 2L cents per pound, go to waste in
Snata Barbara county, Cal, the present sea-
/ son.
1t is said that q lady who leads the fashion
at Saratoga this year ,delightsi mot eonlysby
! the brillinncYof her diamond 81 but byss her;
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speedy aTSefsa taste for. mini ture paint;
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s,iys The London World
The next election in Kentucky for the
clerk of the court of appeals. a very lucrative
office, will not occur until 1890, but the news
papers are already beginning to canvass the
merits Of candidates.
a hitherto namcless peak Of the Great
| Smoky raiige OF mountains in Tennessee has
just been christcned Point Allen, in honor of
young and aspiring Tennessee writer, Miss
| Drumgoole, whose pen name is "Will Allen"
The Honolulu rifles, about half the stand
ing army of Kalakaua, arc commanded by
\ Col Volney v. Ashford, who is Canadian
by birth. He served in the war of the re-
bellion and is member Of Qae Grand Army
of the Republic.
A boy picked up check for $4,000 on
the German Exchange bank in fke streets Of
New York few days ago, hut he got no re-
ward, for it was worthless, as the bank knew
nothing either Of the sgner or Of the person
to whose order 1t was drawn.
! A poor woman In Grctoit county Mich,
who had been scriInping along on two acres
OF laud for many years, went up to Ithaca
the other day. drew So. 00G hack pension, and
inside Of half an hour blew in $500 for dry
goods. Sho knew what she had been starv-
ing for all her life
A San Antonio (rex) woman publishes the
following card in local paper: II want the
public to distinctly understand that my hus-
band is no negro. My mother Is a Creole
French woman and my father Cherokee
Indian, and my husbands mother wns
Comanche Indian and his father German"
a citizen of Arthur village, Canada, fell
from Ill unguarded bridge into the water
and was saved from drowning by the cxer-
tions Of Mrs. Drake, who riskcd life in the
act. She caught severe cold. and has been
an invalid ever since. The man recovered
s., 900 from the town, but nus cent Of it bns
gone to the woman who saved his life.
The meanest man In Boston hos BEEN re-
ported. He calls himself practical joker,
and it is said that having noticed that on a
certain day of the week pudding was placed
on the ledge of @ window to cool, he bought
bean blower and box of mandrake pills,
and when the pudding next appeared he blew
it full Of pills. 1t is also said that buildings
are no longer exposed on that back window.
The jailer Of the Pueblo county fail, Colo
RADIO, permitted one Of the prisoners to play
the violin evenings. The other night the
scraping began at an early hour, and was
kept up-continuously and Dangerously until
late, when it ceased. In the morning the
jailer found that under cover of the music
four prisoners had sawed Off portion of
window casing, worked big stone out of
place, and escaped.
Some weeks ago vessel was in distress off
Cobb's Island, Va, and the captain Of the
life saving station ordered out the life boat.
his crew being one man short be called for
volunteer, and Richmond editor, Mr.. Cow
ardip, answered the call and took lis place as
''No 5" in tho boat, He proved to be no
passenger, and the vessel was reached and
the crew saved. Mr.. Cowardin has just been
paid So by the United States as wages due
him for rowing No. in the life boat.
Three children, tho eldest II and the young
est 8, found horse caught in railroad
bridge at Piedmont, Mo. 1t was toward
evening, and passenger train was soon due;
SO the little ones made small bonfire OF
brush on the track, and when the train came
in sight waved burning branches The engi-
neer stopped the engine, the horse was re-
moved, tue train went on, and few Of the
passengers knew how Slear they had been TO
an accident